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courts. am not quite ready to place
Capt. Black. He is
An Enthusiast for Certain,

hard now and will keep it up. He said
to-day:
81 shall leave on the Alton road with
a delegation to wait on the governor at
Springfield Tuesday night. We have
arranged to take with us the wives and
children of the prisoners, but l am not
yet in position to say how many of
them will accompany us. AS to who
will compose the delegation besides the
labor members of the legislature and
those of the defense committee and the
amnesty association, it is impossible to
say. We shall issue general invita-
ton to all who desire to join the dele
CATION in plea for executive clemency
to accompany us. Aside from this,
word has been
Sent Broadcast
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, notifying all delegations who
desire to cooperate with us to reach
Springfield not later than next WedneS-
day morning. / have written the gov
ernOr as to our part of the programme,
and requesting him to name time and
place where it will be convenient for
him to receive us. Until we get his
reply cannot say what the arrange
ments there will be.'
''How many do you expect will go to
Springfield?'
"a great many, but cannot tell, nor
can any one, just what number. There
are indications of strong turnout from
Cook county, and it has been intimated
that considerable delegations will come
from the principal cities all over the
country"
From all that could be learned ! infer
there will be a gathering at Springfield
on Wednesday next that will tax the
hotel capacity of the capital to its full
est extent. The governor, it would ap-
pear, will receive delegations from so
many points that, unless he can by
some means
Receive Them in Bulk,
he will not be able to dispose of the
business in one day. The plan seems
to be in the direction of brief oral state
mentS from the heads of their several
delegations. Capt. Black will present
the case, giving the governor a brief
history of the trial and the two unsuc-
cessful appeals. G. &. DiXsOn will talk
as the head of the legislative delega-
ton, DR.. Schmidt or George Schilling
for the defense committee, l.. S. Oliver
for the amnesty association and several
others representing labor organizations.
The wives and children will be pre-
Sented to the governor, and some of the
former may have word to utter on be-
half of their husbands. No estimate
has been placed upon the combined del
egations that will be at Springfield on
Wednesday, but if der-current ru-
mors can be relied upon, a movement
has been started to secure the greatest
possible turnout. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Milwaukee, De-
trOit, Cleveland. Kansas City, Omaha
and threescOre of smaller cities are To
be represented. The railroads anu the
hotels are to
Reap Harvest,
and the governor is to be aStOniShed,
and, if possible, favorably impressed.
Capt. Black is in high hopes Of COM
mutation of all the sentences and speaks
of the revolution which has set in favor
able TO the condemned as more to his
taste than the Once-prOposed social rev.
olutiOn, and Capt. Black is right. He
knows that what ! have wired about
this revolution is correct. The papers
may report according to their fancy.
The fact is patent, and a maudlin Senti-
ment is growing like the traditional
SNOWFALL. Why? Is it because Fielden
prophesied that Chicago would be in
ashes if he and his colleagues are
hanged? Has personal fear and corpO-
rate apprehension aught to do in the
premises? 1t is also fact that many
Chicago men have gone to New York
and others are to follow. Men who
have capital and others who represent
capital have found it desirable to be
conspicuous by their abence, and under
pretense of business in the East seek
the solacing bird and
The Seductive Bottle
far away from the theater of their fears
and apprehensiOns. Many strangers
are here, however, and the vigiiant
police know that some have legitimate
business, others have not. We see them
on the street, meet them in the theaters,
notice them in the Hobbies, catch them
in the city hall, observe them IN the
jail. Among the results, good or evil.
which will follow the final act of the
amnesty association, in cOngregating
here delegation from all parts of the
country to press the question of
clemency upon the governor, will be
that, to certainty, of an immense sur
plus OF cranks. st. Louis and Pittsburg
and New York and Boston and scores
of other cities will each furnish its
quota. These people, sympathizers
with anarchy, as well as the condemned
anarchists, Will come to Chicago pro-
fessediy as delegates representing
various labor and other organizations.
They will congregate upon the streets
of Chicago and find their way into the
various headquarters and saloons fre-
Quentcd by
Reds and Radical Socialists,
and will no doubt serve as an igniting
material TO the already excited masses
here. They will &c to Springfield, some
of them at least, and will bring back i'm
pressionS. favorable or unfayorable,
pertaining to the final issue of the case.
All this, which with the information on
hand is but moderate statement of
what may reasonably be expected, sug-
gests the idea that the police will have
their hands full. Many of these visit
ors. perhaps majority. will be we'll
meaning citizens, but on the other
hand many of them will need to be
carefully watched if the peace and
safety of person and property in
Chicago is properly guarded. While 1t is
unMiSe to create needless alarm at this